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COUNTY MARRIAGE LICENSE RECORDS
County marriage license records are public records that can be searched
at the country courthouse. They are an often-overlooked source of
information for missing persons investigators and skip tracers. This
public record will of course list both parties to the marriage along
with their address at the time of the marriage. They also contain
address information on the date of the marriage and the wife's maiden
name. The record will also contain information on who joined the parties
together in holy matrimony. This is, of course; a good tip on the
subject's religious connection. In the state of Texas, this record will
also list:
Date Of Birth
SSN Number
Employer At The Time Of Marriage
Driver License Number
These are vital pieces of information to have on any skip trace or
missing persons investigation. Check your local county courthouse and
find the marriage license records division so you'll know where it is at
and what kinds of information can be found in the record in your local
area.
STATE VITAL RECORDS
When you don't know what county the subject was married in and you find
it's not the county of the subject last known address, you can switch
from a county search to a statewide search to find the date and county
the subject was married in. For contact information for each state vital
records office, you can find it for free online on the net at:
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/vital-records/w2welcom.htm
UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE SEARCHES
Uniform Commercial Codes, commonly called a UCC, is a notice of a lien
filed in the country courthouse and then sent to a statewide records
database. This information is filed on car loans, loans for furniture or
just about any other type of loan. A UCC record will contain the
subject's full name and full address as well as a description of the
property the lien is placed against. It will also contain the name and
address of the company that filed the lien. We all know that behind
every UCC, is more information from the holder of the lien and a
connection to your skip since the lien holder gave your subject a loan.
UCC records can be searched at the local county courthouse and also
be searched online statewide by going to:
http://www.pimall.com/nais/uccr.html
HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES
In every state in the United States, if you want to hunt or fish, you
are required to obtain a state license to do so. It's the state's way of
sucking more money out of it's citizens since they charge a fee to
obtain the license put it's an often overlooked public record skip
tracers can access. The information in the record will often contain the
full name, address and Date of birth of the subject.
For contact information on Hunting And Fishing licenses in all 50
states, just go to:
http://www.remington.com/license/state_select.asp
CIVIL COURT RECORDS/SERVICE OF PROCESS
I can not tell you how many times I have found a current address of a
skip in civil court records. People on the run tend to have pending
litigation on file in the county courthouse. In these files you will
find the names and address of both parties to the action as well as
service of process papers which will give you the actual address, date
and time the paper was served on your subject. In effect, what you have
done is found a public record on the current address (or more current
address) of your subject that someone else had done the work on. Civil
records can be search at the local country courthouse. There are usually
two different records courts. A lower court and an upper court. The
division of these courts have to do with the amount of the claim under
the action. In many areas, the break-off point between the lower courts
and upper courts is $10,000 but that will vary from state to state. The
point is to understand there are usually two different civil court
records offices in almost all countries and to search them both.
PIZZA SHOPS
When was the last time your skip ordered a Pizza? The below links let
you find the nearest pizza shop to your subject. Of course, this is not
much good unless you have a current location. It's worth pointing out
however, that pizza chains maintain databases of people who have ordered
a pizza from them. It's up to you to develop a suitable pretext to pry
this information out of the pizza clerk.
http://www.dominos.com/StoreLoc/Index.cfm
http://www.vicinity.com/yt.hm?FAM=pizzahut&SEC=startprx
http://www.papajohns.com/locator/index.htm
FLOWER DELIVERY TRICK FOR APARTMENT COMPLEX
In the case of an apartment complex when you are not sure which
apartment the subject lives in, you will find the apartment manager
office most helpful since it's flowers. When they are not helpful, the
apartment manager will take the flowers at the office and call your
subject to come and pick them up. You can now watch the front door of
the apartment management complex, photograph your subject leaving with
the flowers and tail the subject but to their apartment.
NEIGHBORS AT LAST KNOWN ADDRESS
Using proper approaches in your investigation, you'll be surprised of
the amount of information you can obtain from neighbors at the last know
address. They can tell you how log the subject has been gone from the
last known address, who the subject lived with, and maybe even the
general area the subject had moved to. You can use reverse telephone
book searches to find the telephone numbers, addresses and names of
these neighbors.
http://citizendata.com/find.neighbors.htm
THE NEWSPAPER DELIVERY BOY
Call the local newspaper and find out who the paper boy that delivers to
the debtor's area is. You'd be surprised what they know!
TOLL CALL RECORDS- LAST KNOWN ADDRESS
When you locate your skip's last phone number. You can do a toll
records search to locate his next known address and persons name and
number that he called within two months.
THE IRS
Does the IRS owe money to your skip? You can check at the below web
site:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/572222.asp?pne=msn
IS YOUR SUBJECT IN JAIL
One of the reasons you might not be able to find a current address on
your subject is because he or she has landed in jail. Here are a number
of web sites with databases that you can use to check and see:
Federal Prison Inmate Locator
http://www.bop.gov/
State Prison Inmate Locator
http://www.corrections.com/links/inmate.html
EBAY SELLER
Ebay is the world's largest auction seller. Is your subject selling
something on ebay? You can find out by using the below web page:
http://pages.ebay.com/search/items/search-old.html
NEWSGROUP SEARCH
has your subject posted messages to a newsgroup or is someone else
talking about him or her? You can find out by using the below web site
database:
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/deja_announcement.html
BOWLING
Is your subject a bowler? If so, when you can LOCATE your subject to a
limited city or area, you can check with the bowling alleys in those
areas. Almost all of them will maintain a list of people who are on
bowling teams. You can also check the database Of the American Bowling
Congress online:
http://www.bowl.com/bowl/abc/common/members/index.html
UNCLAIMED PROPERTY
Does your subject have unclaimed funds in a state? You'd be surprised at
the number of people who do. When you find your subject has unclaimed
funds, sources such as mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and friends
will be more than willing to help you! You can check this in almost
all states from the web links resource below:
http://citizendata.com/find.unclaimed.property.htm
TELEPHONE STING CARDS
Sting cards are services you use in which to pass out various forms of
notices (or mail them to relatives) asking your subject to call a
certain under number under a pretext to obtain information about their
deposit refund (or whatever). Once that toll free number is dialed, a
customized recorded message is played and the serve catches the caller
ID information the caller had called from. The leading service for this
is:
http://www.iisnet.com/main/ie/info.htm
FLAGGING DATES OF YOUR SUBJECT
Certain things happen on certain dates of your subject. On his birthday,
who calls him? His mom of course. Maybe his sister or brother will call.
Knowing the telephone numbers of the subject's relatives, you could
obtain their toll call records and then see if they did indeed call your
skip. Other things happen around the subject's birthday. Did he driver's
license number expire? Does the subject have to renew his vehicle
registration? Although you have likely already checked these records,
wait a month then check them again if they are expired.
Find a birthdate, go to:
http://citizendata.com/birthday.htm
TRAFFIC TICKET RECORDS
Almost everyone gets traffic tickets except me (just kidding-although I
have only had two in the last eighteen years!) These little yellow slips
of paper become a public record at the county courthouse. You can pull
the actual ticket and view the information on it. You will find the
subject's name, Date Of Birth, Driver license number, make and model of
vehicle along with the tag number of the vehicle and a whole lot more.
The second will give you the time and date of the ticket as well as the
location the ticket was issued at. Since most people get traffic tickets
within a 50 miles radius of the place they live, you have likely
narrowed your search geographically, especially when there are more than
one ticket. Of course, in order to check traffic tickets, you need to
know what county to check. You can pop this up to a state level by
running what is called a DMV report which is the same people record
insurance companies check before they issue your insurance. You know,
the more tickets you have in a state DMV database, the more money the
insurance company will suck out of you. Once you run the state DMV
search, you can see which counties the subject had a traffic ticket in
and then run hand searches in those county courthouses to pull the
actual traffic ticket.
http://citizendata.com/vehicles-registrations.htm
SSN TRACING
An SSN trace is likely the number one online search to run when you are
hunting a missing person. In order to run it, you will need the
subject's SSN number. An SSN trace searches through all known credit
bureau files and gives you the top portion of the record which includes
all known address of the subject for the last seven years. In order to
run these searches, you will need to sign up with one of the information
broker services that offers them. You will find a huge list of such
sources inside the PI Mall at:
INFORMATION BROKER SOURCES
http://citizendata.com/ssn.htm
FIND THE RELATIVES
Few people are alone in today's world. The almost all have a loved one
that lives with them. That could be a spouse, a child, a father or a
mother. Try tracing the loved one instead of the skip and you will often
times find your subject.
http://citizendata.com/find.relatives.htm
IS YOUR SUBJECT DEAD?
We all have to die! That's a fact of life. The professional skip tracer
can save himself a great deal of time and trouble by doing a few quick
searches to make sure the subject of the skip is not showing up dead.
SSN DEATH CLAIMS SEARCH
http://citizendata.com/death.htm
PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Doctors, lawyers, nurses, barbers, insurance agents, real estate agents,
funural directors, hearing aid salesman, private investigators, trachers
and a huge assortment of other professions must obtain a state license
to do business. When the the license requirements were started by the
states, they had some aspects of well intended purpose which was
supposed to protect the public from bad business professionals. Although
many of these state boards and regulatory agencies still claim to
protect the public, most of what they do is merely collect yearly fees
from those in those professions to add dollars to the state government.
Even those your missing person can not be found by your client, they
still have to make a living and most people stay in the same profession.
These boards collect massive amounts of information on people in the
various professions they have taxing ability over and the information is
usually a public record. Here are some sources for checking state
information for professional licensing:
State Licensed Occupations In The United States
http://citizendata.com/professional-licenses-records.htm
MAIL DROPS
Many skips resort to using a mail drop. A mail drop is a commercial
business that rents an address basically so no one has a record of the
real address of the subject. It's important to first understand how to
spot a mail drop address and what to do with it after you find out.
Although most mail drop operators claim to clients such as your subject
that they will "protect" them, they usually hold the subject's
address and can usually be easily turned into your informant. Here are
two resources for mail drops that will be helpful.
Mail Drop Address Verification
http://citizendata.com/dragnet-search-background-check.htm
APARTMENT DWELLER SURVEY
When you are able to pinpoint an individual to a specific city, chances
are high that they have rented an apartment to live in. A quick survey
of area apartment complexes can sometimes turn up your subject. Once
again, you can turn to the internet for source contacts. Here's the
sources for apartment complexes.
http://citizendata.com/address.htm
PENSION FUNDS
Is your subject collecting a pension? You can likely find out if his or
her pervious employer had one by going to the following site:
Pension Funds
http://www.pbgc.gov/search/default.htm
AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION AND CERTIFIED PILOTS
Is your skip a pilot? Is so, he or she might be easy to locate
through the pilot database which can be searched online:
Pilot Database
http://www1.drive.net/evird.acgi$pass*41519934!_h-www.landings.com/_landings/pages/search/certs-pilot.html
Does your subject own an aircraft? You will need the tail number of
the aircraft to run this search which could likely be found in UCC
records (covered above)
Complete background scan - includes aircraft
http://citizendata.com/dragnet-search-background-check.htm
TAIL NUMBER AIRCRAFT SEARCH
http://www1.drive.net/evird.acgi$pass*37714528%21mtd*40%21ref*www.landings.com/_landings/pages/search/%21pg*search_nnr.html
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